The Fight Against Lynching: Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen EighteenNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People
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The Fight Against Lynching: Anti-Lynching Work of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People for the Year Nineteen Eighteen
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Lynching
" 12--Estill Springs, Tenn., Jim McIllheron, burned; accused of
shooting to death two white men. G. W. Lych, who hid McIllheron, was shot
to death.
" 23--Fairfax, S. C., Walter Best, hanged; accused of murder.
" 26--Rayville, La., Jim Lewis, Jim Jones and Will Powell, two
hanged and one shot to death; accused of stealing hogs. In the fray one
white man and one Negro were killed.
" 26--Willacoochee, Ga., Ed. Dansy, shot; he had killed two white
officers and wounded three others.
March 16--Monroe, La., George McNeel and John Richards, hanged; alleged
attack upon a white woman.
" 22--Crawfordsville, Ga., Spencer Evans, hanged; convicted of
criminal assault upon a colored woman at the February term of court and
sentenced to be hanged, but a mob took him from jail and lynched him.
" 26--Lewiston, N. C., Peter Bazemore; alleged attack upon a white
woman.
April 4--Collinsville, Ill., Robert P. Praeger, hanged (white); accused
of making disloyal remarks.
" 20--Poplarville, Miss., Claud Singleton, hanged; accused of
murdering a white man. He had been sentenced to life imprisonment.
" 22--Lexington, Tenn., Berry Noyes, hanged; murder of Sheriff W. E.
McBride.
" 22--Monroe, La., Clyde Williams, hanged; shooting C. L. Thomas,
Missouri-Pacific station agent at Fawndale.
May 17--Valdosta, Ga., Will Head, Will Thompson, Hayes Turner, Mary
Turner, Sydney Johnson, Eugene Rice, Chime Riley, Simon Schuman and three
unidentified Negroes, hanged; alleged complicity in the murder of Hampton
Smith.
" 20--Erwin, Tenn., Thomas Devert, shot and burned; alleged murder of a
white girl.
" 22--Miami, Fla., Henry Jackson, hanged; throwing a white man
underneath a train.
" 22--Red Level, Ala., John Womack, shot; alleged assault on a white
woman.
" 23--Cordele, Ga., James Cobb, hanged; alleged murder of Mrs. Roy
Simmons.
" 25--Barnesville, Ga., John Calhoun, shot; alleged murder of John A.
Willis.
June 4--Huntsville, Tex., Sarah Cabiness and her five children; Peter,
Cute, Tenola, Thomas and Bessie, shot; alleged threat to avenge killing
of George Cabiness.
" 4--Beaumont, Tex., Kirby Goolsie, hanged; alleged attack on a white
girl.
" 4--Sanderson, Tex., Edward Valentine (white); murder.
" 18--Mangham, La., George Clayton, hanged; murder of his employer,
Ben Brooks. In a battle with the posse he wounded six men, probably
fatally.
" 18--Earle, Ark., Allen Mitchell, hanged; wounding Mrs. W. M.
Langston.
" 29--Madill, Okla., L. McGill, hanged; alleged attack upon a white
woman.
July 27--Ben Hur, Tex., Gene Brown, hanged; alleged assault on a white
woman.
August 7--Bastrop, La., "Bubber" Hall, hanged; alleged attack on a white
woman.
" 11--Colquit, Ga., Ike Radney; reason unknown.
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